Ramirez was convicted in 1989 for 13 counts of murder. His crimes took place in California between 1984 and 1985. He died in 2013 of cancer while on death row.

Richard Ramirez

Ramirez was convicted in 1989 for 13 counts of murder. His crimes took place in California between 1984 and 1985. He died in 2013 of cancer while on death row.

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The Boston Strangler

The person or persons responsible for the murders of 13 women in Boston in the early 1960s have never been caught.
Though convicted rapist Albert DeSalvo confessed to the crimes, he later recanted. He was found dead in 1973 while serving time in prison.
This is a photo of five of eight women whose murders are linked to the Boston Strangler. Left to right are Sophie Clark, 21; Jane Sullivan, 67; Helen E. Blake, 65; Ida Irga, 75; and Patricia Bissette, 23.

Gacy, the "Killer Clown," was convicted of murdering 33 teenage boys in the 1970s in Chicago.
Of these 33 known murders he was sentenced to death for 12 of them.
He was executed in 1994.

John Wayne Gacy

Gacy, the "Killer Clown," was convicted of murdering 33 teenage boys in the 1970s in Chicago.
Of these 33 known murders he was sentenced to death for 12 of them. He was executed in 1994.

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David Berkowitz

Known as the "Son of Sam" and ".44 Caliber Killer," Berkowitz was convicted of killing six people and attempting to kill seven more in New York City between 1976 and 1977.
He was sentenced to 25 years to life for each murder.
Berkowitz continues to serve his sentence in New York.

The "BTK Killer" was convicted of 10 murders in Wichita, Kan., in 2005 for killings between 1974 and 1991.
The BTK stands for Bind, Torture, Kill.
He was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences and continues to serve time in a Kansas prison.

Two men, Angelo Buono (above right) and Kenneth Bianchi, were convicted of raping, kidnapping and murdering 10 women between 1977 and 1978 in Los Angeles.
Both received life sentences.
Buono died in prison in 2002 from cardiac arrest, and Bianchi continues to serve his sentence.

The so-called "Green River Killer," Ridgway was sentenced in 2003 to 48 consecutive life terms after confessing that he'd killed a string of women in Washington State in the 1980s and '90s.
He would later confess to a total between 65 and 71.
He remains in prison in Washington.

Called the "Milwaukee Cannibal," Dahmer was alleged to have raped and murdered 17 young men between 1978 and 1991.
He was convicted of 16 murders in 1992 and given life in prison.
He was beaten to death while serving his time in 1994.
He was also known to dismember and eat parts of his victims.

Called the "Genesee River Killer," Shawcross was convicted in 1990 of killing 10 people in New York between 1972 and 1989.
He was sentenced to 250 years to life in prison. He was convicted of another murder months later and given another life sentence.
He died from cardiac arrest in 2008.

Between 1993 and 1994 Wuornos was convicted of six of the seven murders she was accused of committing while working as a prostitute between 1989 and 1990.
She was given six death sentences and was executed in Florida in 2002.

The exact number of victims Bundy killed is unknown. He once confessed to 30 murders, but was connected to 36. The span of killings were between 1974 and 1978.
He was given the death penalty in Florida in 1979 for the murder of two college students he raped and murdered. He would receive another death sentence in 1980 for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
Bundy was executed in 1989.

Kemper, also called "The Coed Killer" killed his first victims in 1964 when he was 15, his grandparents. He would serve about five years in a state hospital.
Between 1972 and 1973 He murdered six female hitchhikers, his mother and mom's friend.
He was convicted of eight murders in 1973 and received a life sentence.
He continues to serve his sentence in a California prison.

In 2006 Dominique confessed to murdering 23 men between 1997 and 2006 in Louisiana. He was convicted of rape and murder in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison. He continues to serve his sentence in Louisiana.

Better known by his alias H.H. Holmes, he was convicted of four murders and six attempted murders during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
However, Holmes had confessed to 27 murders, nine of which authorities verified.
His true body count has been noted for being as high as 200.
Holmes actually built a hotel, the World's Fair Hotel, later called "Murder Castle," which he designed in part to help him capture, torture and murder his victims, mostly female.

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Nearly a decade after 25-year-old Kirsten Brydum of San Francisco was fatally shot in the head during a trip to New Orleans, her death has been tied to the activity of a possible serial killer, Louisiana prosecutors said Thursday.

The man, 48-year-old Joseph Brant, faces a mandatory life sentence in the 2008 stabbing death of Jessica Hawk and recently confessed to three other New Orleans killings, one of them Brydum's, according to Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro.

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Brant was serving his sentence for an unrelated burglary charge in Huntsville, Texas, when he confessed, Cannizzaro said. Since his confession, Brant has been indicted on three counts of first-degree murder.

In exchange for his confession, Brant will be spared the death penalty and will be allowed to serve his sentence in a Louisiana prison, according to prosecutors.

The other victims were a still-unidentified woman killed in 2007 and a woman named Jody Johnson, who was killed in January 2008. The bodies of Johnson and the unidentified women were burned, authorities said.

Brydum was described by friends as a passionate community activist, devoted to solving problems large and small. She helped create an exchange called the Really, Really Free Market in Dolores Park.

"People bring their rummage to the park on the last Saturday of the month and give it away," The Chronicle noted after her death. "Nobody gets any money and everyone walks away a little richer. That was how she liked it."

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Brydum left San Francisco with an Amtrak pass in her pocket, in pursuit of what she called "collective autonomy," friends told The Chronicle in 2008. She looked through trash in New York, protested outside the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., and talked to housing activists in Philadelphia. And eventually, she boarded a fateful train to New Orleans.

Two days before her body was found in the city's Ninth Ward, she posted on her blog of her arrival in New Orleans: "The sun is setting on the bayou-licked lands and I am truly fortunate."

She was robbed of a bag and the bike she'd been riding, so police labelled the death a robbery.

Cannizzaro expressed hope that the life sentences might bring "some degree of closure" to the long-grieving families of the dead women.